Washing-machine



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E. N. WICKS.

WASHING MACHINE.

No. 329,608. Patented Nov. 3, 1885.

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EDGAR N. \VICKS, OF MERIDEN, ILLINOIS.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIPIQATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,608, dated November 3, 1885.

Application filed March 11, 1885. Serial No. 158,399.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR N. Wicks, of Meriden, in the county of La Salle,and in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in XVashing Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to washing-machines, and will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings,Figure 1 is a cross-section of my machine, and Fig. 2 is aperspective view of one of the buckets of the same.

A is a boiler, and B is a drum having solid heads B',whieh are connected by slats O, which latter are made with inturned edges 0, spaces being left between the adjacent edges of the slats. The rims ofheads B extend out beyond the slats,and to these rims a series of buckets, D,are pivoted by rods (1, that extend from one head to the other of the drum. One of these buckets is located just outside of each opening 0, and each buckethas a flange, d, at each end that rests against the adjacent slat 0 when its bucket is on the rise ,and holds the bucket in an upright position until it reaches its dumping-point. The drum B is trunnioned in the boiler, and is to be turned by crank. (Shown in dotted lines.) After thelid of the boiler A is taken off the clothes are placed in the drum through a door, b, and enough water is poured into the boiler to reach about up to the bottom slat when the drum is at rest. After the water has begun to boil the drum is turned in the direction indicated by the arrow, when the buckets will dip the water from the bottom and carry it up to dump it on the clothes from the top, so that it may soak through the clothes, which must be soaped, of course, and then the drum is turned back in the opposite direction to permit the clothesto (No model.)

drain, for when the drum is turned backward the bottoms of the buckets will fall into the openings 0, and they will not dip water, and thus as the drum is turned backward and forward the rlothes will be alternately saturated and drained, and the steam will be allowed to thoroughly penetrate them. I provide the inner faces of the slats O with ribs a,that,with the edges c,gi\'e the inside of the drum a surface similar to that of ordinary wash-boards, and cause the clothes to tumble about and be shaken up,instead of permitting them to slide in a solid mass.

My device is easily handled, and with it a drum full of clothes may be thoroughly washed in from fifteen to twenty minutes.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is V 1. The combinatiomwith the drum and slats having inturned rims or edges,of the pivoted buckets having guiding-flanges, as described.

2 In a washingmachine, the combination of the washboiler with a slotted revolving drum, and buckets pivoted thereto, and to take Water from beneath the drum and pour it automatically into the drum from the top thereof when the drum is revolved in one direction, and to turn on their pivots without receiving water when the drum is revolved in the opposite direction, whereby the clothes in the drum may be alternately soaked and drained, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand,at Mendota, in the county of La Salle and State of Illinois, in the presence oftwo witnesses.

EDGAR N. \VIGKS.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN F. MADDEN, AUSTIN SMrrn. 

